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Facing globalization in the Himalayas : belonging and the politics of the self / edited by Gerard Toffin, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Governance, conflict and civic action series ; Volume 5.
- Governance, Conflict and Civic Action ; Volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic groups--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Ethnic groups.
- Group identity--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Group identity.
- Nationalism--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Nationalism.
- National characteristics.
- Globalization--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Globalization.
- Himalaya Mountains Region--Ethnic relations.
- Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Sage Publications, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the complex relationships between belonging and globalization in the contemporary Himalayan world and beyond. Over the last decades, the interrelations at local, national, and global scales have intensified in historically unprecedented forms and intensity. At the same time, homogenizing global processes have generated parochial and vernacular reactions. This book aims at developing an appropriate analysis of these interactions and, thus, at supplementing the previous collection on the Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas. This book is the first major study on this topic a
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 - Introduction; PART I - SHIFTING HORIZONS OF BELONGING; 2- Improbable Globalization; 3 - Circular Lives; 4 - Being a Ladakhi, Playing the Nomad; PART II - MIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH ASIA AND BEYOND; 5 - Migration, Marginality, and Modernity; 6 - Rights and a Sense of Belonging; 7 - Geographical, Cultural, and Professional Belonging of Nepalese Migrants in India and Qatar; PART III- CREATING TRANSNATIONAL BELONGING; 8 - Belonging and Solitude among Nepali Nurses in Great Britain; 9 - Culture on Display; 10 - Being and Belonging; 11 - Global Gurungs
- PART IV - GLOBALITY AND ACTIVIST EXPERIENCE12 - Buddhist Activism, New Sanghas, andthe Politics of Belonging among Some Tharuand Magar Communities of Southern Nepal*; 13 - Power Projects, Protests, and Problematicsof Belonging in Dzongu, Sikkim*; 14 - Weepingsikkim.blogspot.com; PART V - NATIONAL RECONFIGURATIONS; 16 - Who Belongs to Tibet?; 17- The Last Himalayan Monarchies; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 93-5150-048-9
- OCLC:
- 900006755
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